Digitimes announced that the price of Blu-ray drives dramatically dropped over the past weeks, reaching a price range of 70 to 80 USD. It remains more expensive than the DVD burner drive; however it could help computer companies to integrate such optical drive more often in their models, of course for Apple one would need a slot-in unit for all hardware models but the Mac Pro. This will take time as the website considers that the current price of BD movies is too high to efficiently compete with the DVD version.
This is also true for BD burners, getting now cheaper as one can find some models below 150 €, however the main break to a real democratization of such drive is the price of media.
